[Bug: 21.4.17] Proportional font too large

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an seachtú lá déag de mí Márta, scríobh Ralf Angeli: 

 > [...] As you are referring to GNU Emacs with the crash you are
 > mentioning, I am tempted to refer to it as well when I say that there are
 > applications which actually are able to avoid horribly looking fonts. (c;

Eh, that’s a subjective call. And we do have a whisper of a decent redisplay
infrastructure on X11 in the pipeline;
http://www.parhasard.net/aidan-gnus-sjt-xft-2005-03-02.png . 

 > >  > I found that I can help XEmacs a bit if I explicitely specify the size
 > >  > of the face.  That means when customizing the face it does not come
 > >  > out as big as before if I activate the "Size" specifier and insert
 > >  > "18pt" besides the "helvetica" for the font family.  But it still is
 > >  > noticably larger than the 18-pixel default font.
 > >
 > > Oww! When I do that on my machine, it’s even huger and more surprising.
 > > Though perhaps just about acceptable for section
 > > headings. “-Adobe-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--25-180-100-100-P-130-ISO8859-1”
 > > is the full xlfd. 
 > 
 > That's actually what I am getting as well.  So XEmacs seems to have a
 > problem only if there is no size specified.

Let me re-iterate that, but more concisely; I see a problem when the size is
specified, and not otherwise. In your place, I would consult with more
people before specifying a size by default, because your setup seems strange
enough that what works there may look horrible with more widespread
defaults. 

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